In today's Show Notes minisode, Max revisits Thomas Piketty's theory of universal inheritance, we continue talks of NATO + Russia, and 99 yells about Phish some more.  Listen to the main episode accompaniment here Chapters Intro: 00:00:20 Previous Episode Thoughts: 00:01:36 Emails: 00:08:03 Facebook Shout Outs: 00:30:59 Twitter Shout Outs: 00:32:45 Instagram Shout Outs: 00:35:59 Coffees and Members: 00:40:15 Housekeeping: 00:45:31 Outro: 00:47:00 Resources Time for Socialism: Dispatches from a World on Fire, 2016-2021 Knudsen's UNFTR Facebook Group Dark Money Kill Switch The New Jim Crow Color of Money The Family UNFTR Union Episode Macro N Cheese UNFTR Subreddit -- If you like #UNFTR, please leave us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts: unftr.com/rate and follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram at @UNFTRpod. Visit us online at unftr.com. Buy yourself some Unf*cking Coffee at shop.unftr.com. Subscribe to Unf*cking The Republic on Substack at unftr.substack.com to get the essays these episode are framed around sent to your inbox every week. Check out the UNFTR Pod Love playlist on Spotify: spoti.fi/3yzIlUP. Visit our bookshop.org page at bookshop.org/shop/UNFTRpod to find the full UNFTR book list, and find book recommendations from our Unf*ckers at bookshop.org/lists/unf-cker-book-recommendations. Access the UNFTR Musicless feed by following the instructions at unftr.com/accessibility. Unf*cking the Republic is produced by 99 and engineered by Manny Faces Media (mannyfacesmedia.com). Original music is by Tom McGovern (tommcgovern.com). The show is written and hosted by 99's Russian half and distributed by 99's German's half. Podcast art description: Image of the US Constitution ripped in the middle revealing white text on a blue background that says, ‘Unf*cking the Republic.’Support the show: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/unftrSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine changed the global political calculus almost overnight. While catastrophic and horrific in nature, this shift has provided unforeseen opportunities that were unthinkable just a few months ago. The question is how best to mobilize in this darkness to affect positive change moving forward. We examine the work of Thomas Piketty and Erica Chenoweth to help wrap our minds around what’s possible, no matter how audacious. Chapters Intro: 00:00:07 Chapter One: 00:03:13 Chapter Two: 00:13:32 Chapter Three: 00:20:21 Closing Thoughts: 00:28:13 Post-Show Musings: 00:31:30 Outro: 00:46:17 Resources IRS: The Estate Tax: Ninety Years and Counting IPCC: Climate Change 2022 Al Jazeera: Could energy independence from Russia spur a shift to renewables? New York Times: Can Germany Break Up With Russian Gas? Jacobin: Nationalize All the Oil Companies Adam Tooze: China under pressure Book Love Thomas Piketty: Time for Socialism: Dispatches from a World on Fire, 2016-2021 UNFTR Episode Resources White on White Crime in Eastern Europe. Peak Oil. A (Mostly) Vegan World. Playing Chicken with China. Building the Climate Industrial Complex. Modern Monetary Theory. The Beatification of Ronald Reagan. -- If you like #UNFTR, please leave us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts: unftr.com/rate and follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram at @UNFTRpod. Visit us online at unftr.com. Buy yourself some Unf*cking Coffee at shop.unftr.com. Subscribe to Unf*cking The Republic on Substack at unftr.substack.com to get the essays these episode are framed around sent to your inbox every week. Check out the UNFTR Pod Love playlist on Spotify: spoti.fi/3yzIlUP. Visit our bookshop.org page at bookshop.org/shop/UNFTRpod to find the full UNFTR book list, and find book recommendations from our Unf*ckers at bookshop.org/lists/unf-cker-book-recommendations. Access the UNFTR Musicless feed by following the instructions at unftr.com/accessibility. Unf*cking the Republic is produced by 99 and engineered by Manny Faces Media (mannyfacesmedia.com). Original music is by Tom McGovern (tommcgovern.com). The show is written and hosted by 99's Russian half and distributed by 99's German's half. Podcast art description: Image of the US Constitution ripped in the middle revealing white text on a blue background that says, ‘Unf*cking the Republic.’Support the show: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/unftrSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In today's Show Notes minisode, Max reads a cutting room floor draft, we share some Unf*cker feedback, and discuss Russia and Ukraine a bit further.  Listen to the main episode accompaniment here Chapters Intro: 00:00:21 Cutting Room Floor: 00:00:55 Buy Me A Coffee Donations + Memberships: 00:07:38 Facebook Shout Outs: 00:24:52 Twitter Shout Outs: 00:26:27 Instagram Shout Outs: 00:31:44 Emails: 00:38:48 Reviews: 00:57:00 Housekeeping: 00:57:55 Outro: 00:59:41 Resources American Scandal: LA Steals Its Water The Intercept: Toxic Nostalgia, From Putin to Trump to the Trucker Convoys Unf*cker Recommendations  Macro n Cheese Podcast The Dig Podcast Sway: Why Facebook Whistle-Blower Frances Haugen Thinks She’ll Outlast Mark Zuckerberg Claire Evans: Broad Band Bobby McD on Instagram and Facebook -- If you like #UNFTR, please leave us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts: unftr.com/rate and follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram at @UNFTRpod. Visit us online at unftr.com. Buy yourself some Unf*cking Coffee at shop.unftr.com. Subscribe to Unf*cking The Republic on Substack at unftr.substack.com to get the essays these episode are framed around sent to your inbox every week. Check out the UNFTR Pod Love playlist on Spotify: spoti.fi/3yzIlUP. Visit our bookshop.org page at bookshop.org/shop/UNFTRpod to find the full UNFTR book list, and find book recommendations from our Unf*ckers at bookshop.org/lists/unf-cker-book-recommendations. Access the UNFTR Musicless feed by following the instructions at unftr.com/accessibility. Unf*cking the Republic is produced by 99 and engineered by Manny Faces Media (mannyfacesmedia.com). Original music is by Tom McGovern (tommcgovern.com). The show is written and hosted by Max and distributed with love. Podcast art description: Image of the US Constitution ripped in the middle revealing white text on a blue background that says, ‘Unf*cking the Republic.’Support the show: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/unftrSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A psychopath in Russia just committed a war crime by invading Ukraine. Now he’s a mass murderer as well. Today’s episode examines whether the United States has standing in this fight, the role of NATO since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the bullshit narrative surrounding rising oil and gas prices that literally no one is getting right. We also destroy some current popular right wing talking points about Biden, fossil fuel and energy independence. And Max shares one of his favorite stories about onions and explains how it might be the key to saving us all. (Just go with it.) Chapters Intro 00:00:51 Chapter One 00:05:42 Chapter Two: 00:15:38 Chapter Three: 00:22:26 Chapter Four: 00:28:53 Chapter Five: 00:38:50 Post-Show Musings: 00:44:16 Resources + Book Love: 00:45:06 Pod Love: 00:47:25 Outro: 00:48:15 Resources The Intercept Ken Klippenstein  Jeremy Scahill Murtaza Hussain Naomi Klein Chris Hedges Adam Tooze Matt Taibbi Al Jazeera The New Yorker: Getting Real: George F. Kennen’s Cold War Brookings: The U.S. Decision to Enlarge NATO: How, When, Why, and What Next? Al Jazeera: Nord Stream 2: Why Russia’s pipeline to Europe divides the West Al Jazeera: Russia makes US an offer on last major arms control treaty Chartbook #93: Russia's $720m per day gas windfall - the lopsided economic war Macrotrends: Crude Oil Prices - 70 Year Historical Chart The Intercept: Toxic Nostalgia, From Putin to Trump to the Trucker Convoys Watson Institute: Human Cost Of Post-9/11 Wars Vietnam Embassy: Cruel fact: How many Vietnamese people died in the Vietnam war? Council on Foreign Relations: Global Conflict Tracker Book Love George F. Kennan: American Diplomacy Emily Lambert: The Futures: The Rise of the Speculator and the Origins of the World's Biggest Markets Pod Love Best of the Left: #1474 Invasion of Ukraine: Some Context UNFTR Episode Resources Peak Oil. -- If you like #UNFTR, please leave us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts: unftr.com/rate and follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram at @UNFTRpod. Visit us online at unftr.com. Buy yourself some Unf*cking Coffee at shop.unftr.com. Subscribe to Unf*cking The Republic on Substack at unftr.substack.com to get the essays these episode are framed around sent to your inbox every week. Check out the UNFTR Pod Love playlist on Spotify: spoti.fi/3yzIlUP. Visit our bookshop.org page at bookshop.org/shop/UNFTRpod to find the full UNFTR book list, and find book recommendations from our Unf*ckers at bookshop.org/lists/unf-cker-book-recommendations. Access the UNFTR Musicless feed by following the instructions at unftr.com/accessibility. Unf*cking the Republic is produced by 99 and engineered by Manny Faces Media (mannyfacesmedia.com). Original music is by Tom McGovern (tommcgovern.com). The show is written and hosted by Max and distributed with love. Podcast art description: Image of the US Constitution ripped in the middle revealing white text on a blue background that says, ‘Unf*cking the Republic.’Support the show: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/unftrSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On this bonus UNFTR, 99 revisits Book Love segments past in hopes to inspire your reading lists. We’ll be back with full-fledged Unf*ckings very soon!  Resources UNFTR Book List on Bookshop.org Unf*cker Book Recommendations -- If you like #UNFTR, please leave us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts: unftr.com/rate and follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram at @UNFTRpod. Visit us online at unftr.com. Buy yourself some Unf*cking Coffee at shop.unftr.com. Subscribe to Unf*cking The Republic on Substack at unftr.substack.com to get the essays these episode are framed around sent to your inbox every week. Check out the UNFTR Pod Love playlist on Spotify: spoti.fi/3yzIlUP. Visit our bookshop.org page at bookshop.org/shop/UNFTRpod to find the full UNFTR book list, and find book recommendations from our Unf*ckers at bookshop.org/lists/unf-cker-book-recommendations. Access the UNFTR Musicless feed by following the instructions at unftr.com/accessibility. Unf*cking the Republic is produced by 99 and engineered by Manny Faces Media (mannyfacesmedia.com). Original music is by Tom McGovern (tommcgovern.com). The show is written and hosted by Phish and distributed by funky jams. Podcast art description: Image of the US Constitution ripped in the middle revealing white text on a blue background that says, ‘Unf*cking the Republic.’Support the show: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/unftrSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today we have a special episode for you—a Manny & 99 takeover. While Max is away the minions will play! We run through some listener feedback and share some behind the scenes details of our recording process. Enjoy! Unf*cker ResourcesSwing LeftIndivisible Manny + 99's Podcast RecommendationsNews BeatHip-Hop Can Save AmericaLouder Than A RiotCode SwitchStuff You Should KnowLast Podcast on the LeftAmerican ScandalHow Did This Get MadeComedy Bang BangU Talkin’ U2 2 Me (Plus REM + Talking Heads)Song Exploder -- If you like #UNFTR, please leave us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts: unftr.com/rate and follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram at @UNFTRpod. Visit us online at unftr.com. Buy yourself some Unf*cking Coffee at shop.unftr.com. Subscribe to Unf*cking The Republic on Substack at unftr.substack.com to get the essays these episode are framed around sent to your inbox every week. Check out the UNFTR Pod Love playlist on Spotify: spoti.fi/3yzIlUP. Visit our bookshop.org page at bookshop.org/shop/UNFTRpod to find the full UNFTR book list, and find book recommendations from our Unf*ckers at bookshop.org/lists/unf-cker-book-recommendations. Access the UNFTR Musicless feed by following the instructions at unftr.com/accessibility. Unf*cking the Republic is produced by 99 and engineered by Manny Faces Media (mannyfacesmedia.com). Original music is by Tom McGovern (tommcgovern.com). The show is written and hosted by Max, typically and distributed by 99. Podcast art description: Image of the US Constitution ripped in the middle revealing white text on a blue background that says, ‘Unf*cking the Republic.’Support the show: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/unftrSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The showwwwww noteessss. In this experiment, we break out show notes into their own unf*cking minisode so we can spend more time answering y'all Unf*ckers. Listen to the main episode accompaniment here. Resources from Unf*ckers Bobby McD on Instagram and Facebook Jacobin: Can We Criticize Foucault? Josh Mitchell: The Debt Trap: How Student Loans Became a National Catastrophe -- If you like #UNFTR, please leave us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts: unftr.com/rate and follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram at @UNFTRpod. Visit us online at unftr.com. Buy yourself some Unf*cking Coffee at shop.unftr.com. Subscribe to Unf*cking The Republic on Substack at unftr.substack.com to get the essays these episode are framed around sent to your inbox every week. Check out the UNFTR Pod Love playlist on Spotify: spoti.fi/3yzIlUP. Visit our bookshop.org page at bookshop.org/shop/UNFTRpod to find the full UNFTR book list, and find book recommendations from our Unf*ckers at bookshop.org/lists/unf-cker-book-recommendations. Access the UNFTR Musicless feed by following the instructions at unftr.com/accessibility. Unf*cking the Republic is produced by 99 and engineered by Manny Faces Media (mannyfacesmedia.com). Original music is by Tom McGovern (tommcgovern.com). The show is written and hosted by this guy and distributed ova' there. Podcast art description: Image of the US Constitution ripped in the middle revealing white text on a blue background that says, ‘Unf*cking the Republic.’Support the show: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/unftrSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Because inflation is on everyone’s minds and the media can’t seem to get this right, we dive even deeper into the inflation narrative to dispel both propaganda and myth. Surprise, surprise, the real story of inflation is wrapped up in corporate America’s rather impressive year. We’ll talk about how increasing rents, pain at the pump and higher consumer prices went back into the pockets of large corporations and Wall Street and explain why it only happened in America. Chapters Intro: 00:00:25 Prologue: 00:01:23 Chapter 1: 00:07:21 Chapter 2: 00:15:30 Chapter 3: 00:19:20 Chapter 4: 00:27:37 Closing Thoughts: 00:39:52 Show Notes: 00:41:48 Book Love: 00:52:44 Outro: 00:53:43 UNFTR Beer Partnership McFleshman's Brewing Co. Become a UNFTR Insane Level Member Resources Reuters: Japan's inflation hovers around 2-year high, BOJ flags price pressure Pew Research: As national eviction ban expires, a look at who rents and who owns in the U.S. ProPublica: When Private Equity Becomes Your Landlord Rent.com: A monthly look at average rent price trends across the United States. EIA: Short-Term Energy Outlook Barron's: How Oil Could Hit $150. It’s Not Just About Russia. Statista: Daily demand for crude oil worldwide from 2006 to 2020, with a forecast until 2026 CGT: Top 100 Consumer Goods Companies of 2021 Tyson: Annual SEC Report ‘21 Nestlé: Nestlé reports nine-month sales for 2021, raises full-year organic sales growth guidance Procter & Gamble: Annual SEC Report ‘21 Book Love Binyamin Appelbaum: The Economists' Hour: False Prophets, Free Markets, and the Fracture of Society Thomas Piketty: Capital in the Twenty-First Century Stephanie Kelton: The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy Pod Love Pitchfork Economics: Debunking deficit myths (with Stephanie Kelton) UNFTR Episode Resources Peak Oil. Fox in the Outhouse: Invasion, Immigration & Inflation. Labor Unions. Modern Monetary Theory. F*ck Milton Friedman. -- If you like #UNFTR, please leave us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts: unftr.com/rate and follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram at @UNFTRpod. Visit us online at unftr.com. Buy yourself some Unf*cking Coffee at shop.unftr.com. Subscribe to Unf*cking The Republic on Substack at unftr.substack.com to get the essays these episode are framed around sent to your inbox every week. Check out the UNFTR Pod Love playlist on Spotify: spoti.fi/3yzIlUP. Visit our bookshop.org page at bookshop.org/shop/UNFTRpod to find the full UNFTR book list. Access the UNFTR Musicless feed by following the instructions at unftr.com/accessibility. Unf*cking the Republic is produced by 99 and engineered by Manny Faces Media (mannyfacesmedia.com). Original music is by Tom McGovern (tommcgovern.com). The show is written and hosted by this guy and distributed ova' there. Podcast art description: Image of the US Constitution ripped in the middle revealing white text on a blue background that says, ‘Unf*cking the Republic.’Support the show: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/unftrSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We’re hitting the pause button in honor of our 50th full episode. Quite the milestone and we wanted to celebrate together. And in true UNFTR fashion, we celebrate by running through 2021 from a congressional perspective. What did we actually accomplish and why? How? We top it off with some ways for Unf*ckers to get involved and make change in their communities so that come end of ’22 we can (hopefully) tell a different story. Chapters Intro: 00:00:38 Chapter 1: 00:01:47 Chapter 2: 00:08:46 Chapter 3: 00:15:54 Chapter 4: 00:23:10 Chapter 5: 00:28:16 Show Notes: 00:31:17 Coffee Updates: 00:33:49 Max's Musings: 00:38:23 Emails + Shout Outs: 00:41:33 Outro: 01:09:00 Bonus FIFA Breakdown: 01:12:19 Resources The New York Times: Frustrated Democrats Call for ‘Reset’ Ahead of Midterm Elections Congressional Progressive Caucus: Congressional Progressive Caucus Calls for Senate Passage of Build Back Better by State of the Union The Washington Post: Evaluating the success of the Great Society Miller Center: Franklin D. Roosevelt: Domestic Affairs Public Leadership Institute: Model Bills The Intercept: Anti-Trans Bills Are Moving Through State Legislatures With Remarkable Speed Tom McGovern on Instagram Pod Love Best of the Left: Episode 1468, Winning battles against the forces of neoliberalism around the world The David McWilliams Podcast: Breaking down the metaverse & why we we need to disconnect Canadaland: Commons UNFTR Episode Resources A (Mostly) Vegan World. Libertarians Are Exhausting. Holiday Quickie. The Itsfuckedforsure Bill. U.S. Progressivism from 1912 to 2021. Californication. Manufacturing Dissent (Rupert Murdoch). F*ck Milton Friedman. The Beatification Of Ronald Reagan. -- If you like #UNFTR, please leave us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts: unftr.com/rate and follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram at @UNFTRpod. Visit us online at unftr.com. Buy yourself some Unf*cking Coffee at shop.unftr.com. Subscribe to Unf*cking The Republic on Substack at unftr.substack.com to get the essays these episode are framed around sent to your inbox every week. Check out the UNFTR Pod Love playlist on Spotify: spoti.fi/3yzIlUP. Visit our bookshop.org page at bookshop.org/shop/UNFTRpod to find the full UNFTR book list. Access the UNFTR Musicless feed by following the instructions at unftr.com/accessibility. Unf*cking the Republic is produced by 99 and engineered by Manny Faces Media (mannyfacesmedia.com). Original music is by Tom McGovern (tommcgovern.com). The show is written and hosted by trouble in the Suez and distributed by suckin' on a chili dog. Podcast art description: Image of the US Constitution ripped in the middle revealing white text on a blue background that says, ‘Unf*cking the Republic.’Support the show: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/unftrSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Oil is everywhere. It’s all around us. It’s in everything and it makes the world go around. The Energy Information Administration (EIA) projects that renewable energy will comprise 27% of the world’s energy production by 2050, all things being equal. Pretty great, right? Not really. Based upon population and economic growth trends, the EIA also predicts that the use of liquid fuels will continue to increase over the same period. So as much as we think we might be getting ahead, we’re really not. But there’s another side of oil that most people rarely think about and that’s its value as a currency. Yes, a currency. We tie in good ol’ Milton Friedman again to discuss how trading this ubiquitous fuel went from commodity to casino, making it more difficult to break this habit than one might imagine.  Chapters Intro: 00:01:31 Prologue: 00:04:35 Chapter 1: 00:05:19 Chapter 2: 00:13:53 Oil Rundown: 00:19:54 Skit: 00:24:39 Chapter 3: 00:28:27 Chapter 4: 00:41:23 Chapter 5: 00:50:58 Show Notes: 00:57:22 Book Love: 00:57:44 Pod Love: 00:59:46 Emails + Shout Outs: 01:18:14 Outro: 01:29:32 Resources World Population Review: Richest African Countries 2022 Trading Economics: Corruption Rank by Country | Africa Worldometer: Equatorial Guinea Oil Democracy Now!: African Dictatorships and Double Standards U.S. Energy Information Administration: International Energy Outlook 2021 Book Love Peter Maass: Crude World- Required reading for anyone interested in the dark underbelly of the oil and gas trade.  Leif Wenar: Blood Oil- Not my favorite. A little overreaching in the historical and socio-political connections it tries to make but contains some solid anecdotal insights to support a broader thesis of corruption.  Morgan Downey: Oil 101- A fundamental book to understand the product itself and the markets that move it.  Dan Dicker: Oil’s Endless Bid- Pedestrian but informative account of what it’s like to be a commodities trader and what went wrong with the business.  Leah McGrath Goodman: The Asylum: The Renegades Who Hijacked the World’s Oil Market- If you’re really into this topic, this is the book for you. I came to it late as it came out in 2011 but it’s an excellent, deep narrative dive into a world that very few people know or understand. Bernard Harcourt: The Illusion of Free Markets- We’ve talked about Harcourt a lot. The first few sections of the book are very inaccessible but provide an invaluable history of the impact of Enlightenment thinking on the new class of free market promoters.  Emily Lambert: The Futures- Possibly one of my favorite business books of all time. A great read told in fun and engaging anecdotes that helps anyone access and understand the bizarre world of the markets.  Pod Love American Scandal: Enron UNFTR Episode Resources F*ck Milton Friedman. The Climate Industrial Complex. The Global Order of Money. A (Mostly) Vegan World. -- If you like #UNFTR, please leave us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts: unftr.com/rate and follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram at @UNFTRpod. Visit us online at unftr.com. Buy yourself some Unf*cking Coffee at shop.unftr.com. Subscribe to Unf*cking The Republic on Substack at unftr.substack.com to get the essays these episode are framed around sent to your inbox every week. Check out the UNFTR Pod Love playlist on Spotify: spoti.fi/3yzIlUP. Visit our bookshop.org page at bookshop.org/shop/UNFTRpod to find the full UNFTR book list. Access the UNFTR Musicless feed by following the instructions at unftr.com/accessibility. Unf*cking the Republic is produced by 99 and engineered by Manny Faces Media (mannyfacesmedia.com). Original music is by Tom McGovern (tommcgovern.com). The show is written and hosted by Daniel Plainview and distributed by wildcatters. Podcast art description: Image of the US Constitution ripped in the middle revealing white text on a blue background that says, ‘Unf*cking the Republic.’Support the show: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/unftrSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.